Meet our team
Find out more about our lively and diverse research-active academic team of 70+
Staff biosOur research is helping to address some of today’s major global challenges, including climate change, social and health inequalities, poverty and recession.
In the UK and across the world, we're making positive a difference to millions of lives, using cutting-edge approaches and technology to understand the earth’s surface processes and our relationship with them.
How can mobile phones help tackle global challenges like the spread of disease or getting aid to the victims of natural disasters?
WatchStudent and staff research is organised into six research groups: Earth Surface Dynamics (ESD); Economy, Governance and Culture; GeoData (which conducts applied environmental research); Global Environmental Change and Earth Observation (GECEO); Palaeoenvironmental Laboratory at the University of Southampton (PLUS); Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW).
Our research community is committed to excellence, and we are continuing to enhance our position as one of the UK’s top centres for geography research in the UK, in terms of the quality of our research, the income we attract and the impact of our projects on global and local economies. Learn more about our research strategy in our 'Excellence with impact' report.
Find out more about our lively and diverse research-active academic team of 70+
Staff biosThe quality of our research places us 11th amongst other UK Geography departments (REF 2014). We are top 5 in the UK for our research outputs (REF 2014) and we achieved 100% for our research environment. For a taster of past projects our Making a Global Impact brochure showcases some of our research highlights and you can learn more about our impact here.